- From: R.V.Guha <guha@alpiri.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 20:32:49 -0400 (EDT)
- To: RDF-Interest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
With all due respect to Charles Sanders Pierce & Shank's work, the RDF data model was in large part inspired by a combination of Minsky's frames and traditional predicate logic (with arity restrictions). guha Seth Russell wrote: > From: "Danny Ayers" <danny@panlanka.net> > > > Look what you've done now Seth, even TimBL's at it : > > > > http://www.w3.org/2001/04/roadmap/ > > Well, to be honest, I doubt that my efforts have even come on TimBl's radar > screen. There has been a long tradition of representing knowledge with > labeled directed graphs starting (perhaps) with Charles Sanders Pierce. I > think John Sowa was the first to have popularized them, see [1]. But for > the record my mentography was heavily influenced not by Sowa's work, but my > Shank's Conceptual Dependency diagrams and was developed around 1978 when I > started working on CyberMind [2]. I discovered Sowa's and Pierce's work > two decades later around the time I published [3]. > > [1] http://www.bestweb.net/~sowa/cg/ > [2] http://robustai.net/mentography/cmap_vs_sem.gif > [3] http://robustai.net/ai/symknow.htm > > Seth
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